Maybe inserting a monosyllable here would have ruined the poetic symmetry of his sentence. |
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Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable. |
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Just like my mother can home in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable. |
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Whether the root be a perfect monosyllable, or a duad, or even triad, formed on the monosyllable, it is the same thing with respect to the origin of the root. |
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But I think it was the starkness of the monosyllable that did it, really. |
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For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks. |
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But when the other six disjunctives are on the monosyllable, then the accent can be either ultimate or penultimate, roughly two to one in favor of retraction. |
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Here a sentence beginning with an absolute claim and building in its rhythm toward an eloquent climax deflates in the bathetic surprise of a harsh and inelegant monosyllable. |
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